South Carolina
Death Indexes 1915-1961

This page contains links to all of the Death Index log files
from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's Division
of Vital Records. The images are compressed in a format that requires a specialized
Plugin for Internet Explorer. To view these records you must follow the instructions
below.

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Instructions

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Step 2: Select the desired year and appropriate records in the listings below.

Death Index Numeric Codes

The information below relates to the
numeric code provided on these Death Indexes for sex and race:

1 - Male

2 - Female

3 - White

4 - Non-White

You will note that the age listed for a
decedent is a three-digit code. The last two digits of the code indicate the
number of years, months, days, hours, or number of years over 100 years old.
The first digit of the age code determines if the age of the decedent was
years, months, days, hours, over 100 years old, or less than one hour old as
follows: